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Chicago
Last year was the city's bloodiest in decades. But others continue to record higher homicide rates — and the hardest hit neighborhoods are what really merit attention.
“These are things that don’t cost money, and that just make sense,” Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin said.
The city's worst month for gun violence since 1997 puts its total shootings for 2016 ahead of the number recorded during all of last year.